Quotes about Culture

We cannot separate the history of a nation from the people of that nation.

We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.

It is so easy for us to stand apart from the culture and do no more than express self-righteous judgmentalism toward it. But those of us who grieve deeply over our own sin will not do this. Instead we will mourn over the sins and wickedness of our nation and will pray most urgently that, just as we want God to be merciful to us, so we want Him to be merciful to our nation as a whole. This will be another expression of humility in action.

The reason we in the West do not suffer more persecution is because we have accommodated ourselves too much to the world around us.

There's been a concerted effort to steal Christmas.

To go to bed at night in Madrid marks you as a little queer. For a long time your friends will be a little uncomfortable about it. Nobody goes to bed in Madrid until they have killed the night. Appointments with a friend are habitually made for after midnight at the cafe.

If you brought up Joyce twice, you would not be invited back.

For one person who likes Spain there are a dozen who prefer books on her.

He was fairly happy, except that, like many people living in Europe, he would rather have been in America, and he had discovered writing.

There was a time, not so long ago, when the stupid and uneducated aspired to be thought intelligent and cultured people doing their best to feign stupidity.

What are you called? Georgette. How are you called? Jacob. That's a Flemish name. American too. You're not Flamand? No, American. Good, I detest Flamands.

Light always trumps darkness. It always has, and it always will. Therefore... if you believe that your world is darkening...if you believe that the culture of your nation is growing dimmer by the year...don't blame it on the dark! Darkness is only doing what darkness does. "If darkness is winning the battles, my friend, it is because light is not doing it's job. You are light. So wake up. Wake up.